It's a cavalry carbine that was made for cavalry use for the Union Army. During the Civil War period, self-contained metallic ammunition is starting to come to the forefront of firearms technology.

The Civil War, Rewritten: What If the Battle of Gettysburg Had Machine Guns? Here’s how the U.S. Army is wargaming alternative history to enhance its weapons strategies.

The Third Arkansas Cavalry was organized in October 1863 at Little Rock, becoming one of four Union cavalry regiments raised in Arkansas during the Civil War. Led by Col. Abraham Ryan, the Third ...

Civil War Reenactors Aren’t Just Play-Acting. They Expect a War. A visit to a battle reenactment in rural Virginia revealed some surprising views about U.S. politics—and broad pessimism about ...

The Winchester rifle’s technological family tree runs through the Henry rifle, used during the Civil War, and on back to 1849, when inventor Walter Hunt patented the Volition Repeating Rifle.

On a farm in Simpsonville, Kentucky, Jake Bryan starts each morning the same way his father, grandfather and great-grandfather before him.

Centreville — Few communities are lucky enough to have a Civil War museum in their midst; Centreville is one of them. The Stuart-Mosby Civil War Cavalry Museum first invited the public in for a ...

The Pennsylvania long rifle takes its name from the Pennsylvania-based independent gunmakers who produced the gun during the Revolutionary War. Long and slender, the rifle was favored by hunters.

In the Civil War, Union cavalry under Judson Kilpatrick and David Gregg rode on county roads in late June 1863, a total of 6,500 troopers.

Click here to see 14 guns that helped fight the Revolutionary War Many American militias went into the fight with weapons brought from their homes, not arms issued by the Continental Congress.